mayor rahm emmanuel should be ashamed of himself. >> reporter: the districts said the closures would save $560 million over the next ten years, but that information came as little comfort to some parents. >> my son loves it here. we love his classroom. they're a little community and it's just so sad to think that they're all going to be separated next year. >> reporter: now this news comes during a tough year for chicago. violence here has spiked and teachers and parent activists suggest that closings could harm entire neighborhoods, forcing perhaps some kids to walk over gang lines just to get to school. matt? >> kevin tibbles, kevin, thank you very much. >>> this is a question a lot of people are asking this morning, just a few days after the official installation of pope francis, will the church change under his leadership? those who want to get rid of the celibacy requirement for priests are looking hopefully at the pope's admission of past crushes. jim maceda has more. >> good morning, matt. it turns out francis, the first latin-american pope came to the priesthood at age 32, no

emmanuel. just 10 years old, emmanuel was selected as the grand prize winner in sco lass ticks national picture president art contest. his charcoal sketch of abraham lincoln earned him that distinguished honor as well as a 50-book library for his classroom at parker middle school and a trip to washington, d.c. emmanuel's teacher back home called him, quote, a great role model who, quote, is eager to learn and help other kids. he practices art drawing every day and hopes to someday pursue a career in art. today emmanuel is joined in the capitol by his father, eman well sr., his mother, karen, and his brother, diego. i would like to welcome him to washington and to congratulate emmanuel on making his school, his city and his state incredibly proud. congratulations, emmanuel. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the entleman from ohio rise? mr. johnson: request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise a

. >> rick: chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel. hi. >> nobody wants to accept the blame burks the spending redunks are reality. both republicans and democrats recognize those receiving furlough notices or pink slips will feel some pain. president obama says he is worried about the big picture. >> this will cause a ripple effect across the economy. businesses will suffer because customers will have less money to spend. the longer these cuts remain in place, the greater the damage. economists estimate they could eventually cost us more than 750,000 jobs and slow our economy by over one half of 1%. >> last tuesday he traveled to newport news, virginia to spotlight the damage towns would suffer. he tour add shipyard where nuclear powered aircraft carriers are built. the visit was designed to pressure congress to act by noting the threat to tens of thousands of workers. leading house republican says the commander in chief could have solved the problem staying home. >> this week the president traveled 180 miles to newport news, virginia,

i don't know why this story just screams -- the headline is arre-emmanuel unhappy with brian williamsposed to be a [ inaudible ] piece to promos the memoir about the brothers and instead resembles ago from meet the press or real time with bill maher or perhaps all in the family. >> stephanie: i love how he can just read it -- >> i don't think stifle huh was in the original interview. >> i love when people get upset when they ask people actual questions. [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: that's when we speculate that tom brokaw quit it was a story with too many ls. >> don't forget the teacher and her lover. [ mumbling ] >> andrew lover. >> and lover -- billy falllll -- although he preferred to have married [ mumbling ] . >> stephanie: speaking of tv news, we mentioned this earlier. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: after ann curry was unser moanously fired matt lauer was demonized. according to a new new york magazine piece -- >> matt lauer is actually bellllzabub. >> stephanie: they had no relationship and barely spoke when the cameras were not rolling. and we don't he

fox news correspondant mark emmanuel has more. >> hi, uma, after the robbery republicans said they would not increase tax revenue. president obama signed an order putting it in affect. today the president blasted the gompt >> it is it happening because republicans in congress chose this outcome over closing a wasteful tax loop hole. they decide to protect? interest tax breaks for the well off and well connected is more important than military and middle class. >> speaker boehner and nancy peel peel've -pelosi and there would be no last minute back room dealings. no one likes the reductions done, republicans accept happened them as a way to reduce sphending. a rising star blame happened president obama and allies in the senate for failing to act. >> we urge president obama and the stiant democrats to put country ahead of party and pass a responsible plan to replace the sequester. instead of campaigning for higher taxes, the president should our nation's sphending problem. >> as the struggle over addressing the reductions continue. march twenth is when the government funding all of it runs

. >> this message is for mayor emmanuel, local opposition to the closure of 54 schools. >> it's emotional for communities to lose their schools, but these are the tough decisions that have to be made that have been delayed. >> the professor has studied the school closings and is troubled by the latest plan. >> this is really an assault on those children's education. as an educator there's no way they could support this. >> cenk: so when you ask the mayor's office about this, they say, look, you have to understand that our system can accommodate 511,000 students and right now there are only 403,000 students, so 140 schools are half empty. and they say the school system has a projected deficit of a billion dollars. consolidation costs cost money on top, but they stated they would save $43 million a year, and in ten years they would save $560 million. the part they don't tell you about is a lot of people that worked on the mayor's campaign would be getting some of the money funneled to them. they would run private schools, some of which would get $20 million in this transition. that seems to

did you see zeke emmanuel on?ct of the beige book and kind of a gentle way that you know, we've all assumed obama care would be good for jobs and job growth. did you see this -- >> didn't say it exactly. >> sort of did. did you see this crazy beige book report that said that possibly it could be hurting job growth. is that even possible? but just, and then zeke said absolutely not. long-term -- long-term the way it's going to work, it's going to be a boone for job creation. but you just even you are starting to -- >> i am fully in favor of any other system that we could expand our health care coverage. >> i understand that. >> in the near-term -- >> hurting small business -- >> 49 hours -- >> let the president go to businesses and say this is my goal, to cover everybody. now tell me how i can do it in a way that doesn't hurt job creation. that's the kind of back and forth between government and business that creates growth. >> the ecb is lowering its gdp projections. >> gdp but not inflation. >> not inflation yet

this is the teacher strike who puts emmanuel at odds.post of republicans like mitt romney. karen lewis said this about the plan closures. our mayor, who was away on a ski trip, drops this information a week before bring break. he should be ashamed of himself. let's bring in the reverend jesse jackson, president of the rainbow bush coalition. reverend, welcome to the show. >> michael, i have enjoyed watching you all week. i could get used to watching "politicsnation" this time every night, so can keep it going, man. >> thank you, reverend jackson. you are the perfect person to ask this. these school closings, are they the only way to close schools in chicago when they are targeting minority students. >> i'm not convinced of that. sometimes three to five, school board says 54. the sheer volume is an issue. but i think, michael, poverty -- we do not know whether this experiment, where it is going. >> it is fair to blame it on the teacher's strike, the reason the schools are closing. do you think this is the powers at be to target them? >> t

i look like emmanuel lewis. >> go all the way up. >> you have the chair. >> you get to go up. >> no, last day. lots of surprises in store and the bar is open. >> oh, yes, indeed! my favorite guest of all time. tim lehr over there running the bar. you will want to stay with us. straight ahead. you are watching "world news now"! ♪ my friend >> announcer: "world news now" brought to you by mucinex sinus max. [ dylan ] this is one way to keep your underwear clean. this is another! ta-daa! try charmin ultra strong. it cleans so well and you can use up to four times less than the leading value brand. oh! there it is. thanks son. hey! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra strong has a duraclean texture that can help you get clean while still using less. and it's four times stronger versus the leading value brand. charmin ultra strong helps keep you and your underwear clean. we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra strong? so at air wick, we waited. a captivating blend of scented notes, crafted by expert perfumers for your home... air wick cactus flower & warm breeze is part of our li

as the university of california-berkley economics professor emmanuel saiz has calculated, losses in average family income during the great recession were felt across the board. average real income per family declined by 17% and the top income earners took it on the chin a little harder. as the bottom 99% experienced a 12% drop in average income, the upper most percent aisle's income fell by 36%. as saiz reports, the sharp fall in top incomes explained primarily by the collapse of realized capital gains due to the stock market crash. of course the top 1% nevertheless were largely sheltered from the stresses that afflicted the most vulnerable as you would expect. what you perhaps didn't expect was how the recovery distributed it self across the same groups. from 2009 to 2011 average real income per family grew modestly by 1.7% but the gains were very uneven. top 1% income grew by 11.2% while bottom 99% income shrank by .4%. hence the top 1% captured not 100% but 121% of the income gains in the first two years of recovery. i'll say that again. of the 1% captured 121% income gains in the first

all of the leading officials the governor, mayor emmanuel of chicago and the legislative leaders haveken out in support. but you know, it is never done until it's done. you have to visit your lawmakers. you have to support the campaign groups that are leading the fight. it takes work. >> bill: and we have david cicilline, the congressman from rhode island on later on the program. we'll ask him about that. >> sure. >> bill: as a native of delaware, i hope delaware does the right thing too. the first state should -- it won't be the first one but it's gotta join one of the first. >> the constitution is, they should live up to it. >> bill: absolutely. evan, thank you for your leadership on this issue for so long. congratulations. and thank you for getting us as far as you have. we're with you until it's the law in all 50 states. we have it within reach. let's keep reaching. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i

she said that she thinks that doctor emmanuel was not good. so unfortunately, my dad doesn't have a passport, because you can go back to the room. but my dad is a very charming guy. one of these guys down in a restaurant and before you knock him in the next table is talking to you and before you know it, there could be dinner the next night. he ends up talking to some people. they end up taking him in in rochester for two weeks. for two weeks he stays there because he can't get into canada because he doesn't have a passport. he ends up going back to cincinnati. they are still after him. so he leaves cincinnati for chicago. >> so there are two things took off from there. one is the idea that that made the momentous world didn't just happen to people in the papers or on television. they happen to people right here in the family. it was a much smaller and more intimate place and they were given this astonishing free range as part of the secret sauce. they had it in chicago too. it was called the trailblazer and the courageous older brother. but o

chicago marry rahm emmanuel has identified 61 public school buildings including over 50 elementary schoolse by the end of the school year. the move impacts 30,000 students, almost all in kindergarten through eighth grade. city officials project 1 billion dollar deficit next year. the closures will save chicago $560 million the next decade. >> whether you do this, mike, in chamucla, florida, or chicago, illinois, this is always excruciating tough for parents and kids, but you got to do it if you're going to keep the budget. >> you have to do it to same some semblance of sanity for a big city like that but you get into where are the displaced kids going to go to schools when the schools are closed? are they going to be bussed? most parents would like their kids to go to a neighborhood school and what happens then? that a huge burden for the mayor now. >> totally. sequestration is complicating it even more. we just did a report that head start across the country is facing these exact challenges and cutting school days and not accepting kids and randomly dropping kids from the program and a di

emmanuel, the facebook says that maybe some jobs -- >> he doesn't want to hear it. >> maybe some jobsuse of that. i mean, raised the possibility obama care might be hurting jobs. i know what you think that -- >> that is not what he sounded like -- >> can you imagine asking whether it's possible the obama care -- >> that was yesterday! that wasn't what he sounded like. >> now would be a good time for me to exit stage right. >> now that you stirred it up -- >> big story coming up. larry myers coming up with his annual who moved markets from the fed. >> all right. we'll -- that's actually -- >> very exciting story. >> you think it's only possible -- >> comments, questions about anything you see here on "squawk" e-mail us at squawk@cnbc.com you can also follow us on twitter. >> still reading these things? @squawkcnbc. that's our handle. >> up next a fresh face to "squawk" after what we've been going through already this morning. we welcome -- really. larry and steve. . ♪ [ cows moo ] [ sizzling ] more rain... [ thunder rumbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the world moves... futures move fi